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I have tried to figure this out for a while - no luck.

I want to click this button:

<button name="showMoreButton" data-test-id="show-more-button" aria-label="Show More" type="button" class="uitk-button uitk-button-medium uitk-button-has-text uitk-button-primary">Show More </button >

I have been trying things like this I have found all over the place, but none work:

element_to_click = driver.find_element(By.xpath("//button[@data-test-id='show-more-button']").click() element_to_click = driver.find_element(By.cssSelector(".uitk-button uitk-button-medium uitk-button-has-text uitk-button-primary")).click()

I think the first failure occurred because Selenium appears to be unable to handle "data-test-id" - something that strikes me a curious weakness...

I can't understand why the second failure occurred.

Thanks so much for any help.

Ellie The Good Dog

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  • What happens on the first one? Do you get an error?
    – John Gordon
    CommentedMay 14, 2021 at 0:16
  • I get "SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing"
    – Ellie The Good Dog
    CommentedMay 14, 2021 at 0:23
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    The first call is missing a closing parentheses before .click().
    – John Gordon
    CommentedMay 14, 2021 at 0:25
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    It's supposed to be in all capitals -- By.XPATH
    – John Gordon
    CommentedMay 14, 2021 at 0:28
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    You're using By.XPATH as a separate function, but it's not. It's just the first argument to find_element(), like so: driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//something') I think you must have copied from a Java selenium example, but the Python version is a bit different.
    – John Gordon
    CommentedMay 14, 2021 at 0:38

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There are lot of ways to deal with that. Here is a reliable solution.

Use Explicit wait

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10) element = wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.NAME, 'showMoreButton'))) element.click()

You would need to import from the below line :

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

or if you want to use XPATH or CSS_SELECTOR then you could try something like given below :

CSS :

element_to_click = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "button[name='showMoreButton'].uitk-button.uitk-button-medium.uitk-button-has-text.uitk-button-primary") element_to_click.click()

XPATH :

element_to_click = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[contains(text(),'Show More')]") element_to_click.click()
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    Please use the code as below. You are missing one parenthesis and writing wrongly .find_element method.

    driver.find_element_by_xpath("//button[@data-test-id='show-more-button']").click()

    You can also use as below

    driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".uitk-button uitk-button-medium uitk-button-has-text uitk-button-primary").click()
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